Sheila Hoffos Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Can anyone help me I’d this bird? Is it some sort of grosbeak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigeon Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Welcome. You must be in Calif or Texas. This is an introduced species....Scaly Brested Munia. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew_Lyall Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Scaly-breasted Munia? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Hoffos Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 Yes, I did see that that was the closest match. So an introduced species, not native to California? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaytonBirder Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 (edited) Older field guides may use the previous name for the bird, Nutmeg Mannikin. A member of the finch family. Edited July 30, 2018 by DaytonBirder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 7 hours ago, Sheila Hoffos said: Is it some sort of grosbeak? 6 hours ago, DaytonBirder said: A member of the finch family. So the original guess of a grosbeak was in the right family. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psweet Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Scaly-breasted Mannikins are indeed not native to California, but they appear to have established themselves there. (They've been in Hawaii for quite a while now...) They are in the family Estrildidae, with the waxbills. "Finch" is an imprecise term, often used to refer to any little bird with a seed-eater's bill, but most of our finches are in the family Fringillidae. Grosbeak is another term without a taxonomic meaning -- just here in the US, Evening and Pine Grosbeaks are in the Fringillidae, whereas Rose-breasted, Black-headed, and Yellow are in the Cardinalidae. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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